Question

Which of the following poems most clearly uses its rhyme scheme to defy the reader's expectations?

A. From my window I spy / a singing, perching magpie.
B. Roses are red, / violets are blue, / weekdays are long, / and weekends are few.
C. To gather some wood / would be oh so good / but I'm not in the mood.
D. I see around you a corona of autumn leaves, / but then I think of death!

Answer 1

C. to gather some wood, would be oh so good, but I'm not in the mood

Answer 2

A rhyme scheme follows a pattern of sounds and intonation which are alike. The final letters in a line have to share the the same letters. This convention is present in option C where we can read the words "wood", "good" and "mood", which share the same pattern. Additionally, the sound of the vowel "o" in between the words makes the lines melodic, e.g. "oh so good".